xviii Contents
32.4 Conclusion 787
Exercises 787
33 Excel Functions 789
33.1 Overview 789
33.2 Financial Functions 789
33.3 Dates and Date Functions 796
33.4 The Functions XIRR and XNPV 802
33.5 Statistical Functions 805
33.6 Doing Regressions with Excel 808
33.7 Conditional Functions 815
33.8 Large and Rank, Percentile, and Percentrank 816
33.9 Count, CountA, CountIF 817
33.10 Boolean Functions 819
33.11 Offset 821
34 Using Array Functions and Formulas 825
34.1 Overview 825
34.2 Some Built-in Array Functions 825
34.3 Homemade Array Functions 830
34.4 Array Formulas with Matrices 833
Exercises 838
35 Some Excel Hints 841
35.1 Overview 841
35.2 Fast Copy: Filling in Data Next to a Filled-in Column 841
35.3 Multiline Cells 843
35.4 Writing on Multiple Spreadsheets 845
35.5 Text Functions in Excel 847
35.6 Chart Titles That Update 847
35.7 Getformula: A Useful Way of Annotating Spreadsheets 850
35.8 Putting Greek Symbols in Cells 853
35.9 Superscripts and Subscripts 854
35.10 Named Cells 856
35.11 Hiding Cells 857
35.12 Formula Auditing 859
35.13 Formulating Millions as Thousands 861